Zwei Jahre ist es her, dass Stadtverwaltung und Streetworker gemeinsam ein Konzept entwickelten: 19 langjährige Trinker, die für anderthalb Liter Bier am Tag gemeinnützige Arbeit verrichten. In zwei Gruppen ziehen die Sozialhilfeempfänger mit Abfallzangen aus, in einem Kiez im schmucklosen Osten der Stadt die Straßen zu säubern. Vor allem internationale Medien stürzten sich auf das Phänomen: Die einen bezeichneten es als „typisch Amsterdam“, kreativ, ein bisschen verrückt, und gaaanz liberal, die anderen fanden kaum Worte für ihre moralische Entrüstung. Niederländer dagegen regt es weniger auf.
Schlagwort: Gesellschaft
Pragmaholics.
Winebreadtruth.
Du stellst diese Frage, entkorkst die Weinflasche, schneidest das Brot in dicke Scheiben, bittest die Ungebetenen, Platz zu nehmen, und hoffst auf eine minimale verbindende Gemeinsamkeit, wie beispielsweise Ratlosigkeit eine sein könnte.
Blütenblätter: Herr M., Herr S., Frau L. und all die anderen, ...
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* Since the 1970s, technologically illiterate politicians and economists have bandied about the idea of an “information economy,” based on buying and selling information piecemeal
* Their bizarre utopia is a world where you can buy and sell information in ever-thinner slices
* Selling the right to watch movies at home but not on vacation
* Selling the right to stream, but not save, a song
* Selling the right to use a program on the phone in your pocket today, but not the right to run it on your next phone
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* Ultimately, selling the right to sell a novel to read on Wednesdays, but only between the hours of 5 and 7, while standing on one leg* Once I was in a meeting at the DVB, where they make the standards for European digital TV, and there was this insane discussion about whether a TV program could be flagged so that you could only watch it in the room where the receiver was
* That is, you couldn’t run a wire or use a wireless transmitter to watch it in another room
* I asked, “Come on, what is this for? It’s not like there’s any law that lets a broadcaster dictate what room you’re allowed to watch a show in”
* And there was a rep from the MPA, the Hollywood movie industry association, there and he said, “Look, watching a movie in one room that’s being received in a different room has value, and if it has value, we should be able to charge money for it”
* Siva Vaidyanthan calls this the “if value, then right” theory — if something has value, someone should have a right to earn money from it
* But I call it it urinary tract infection business model
(Cheer-)Leader.
When I looked around the arena at my robotics competition, I counted only three other girls out of over a thousand high school students working on their teams’ robots. Glancing at the bleachers, I watched girls parading as mascots, girls cheering for their teams, and girls dancing in the stands. But I didn’t see girls on the competition floor. Maybe in the next few years that gender balance will change, and the timid girls in the bleachers will be replaced by fearless women who are undaunted by society’s confining expectations. Someday, my all-girls team will not be the exception to the unspoken rule, but until then, we have to keep breaking it.